Most stoopid use of power tools?
 

Having a discussion on most ambitious use of power tools
elec/petrol

so far we have baked beans (tinned goods) being opened with angle grinder....

Watching the Chinese family behind me attempt to trim their trees with an electric circular saw. They don't speak much English and seem to get irritated when I try to talk to them, so I just leave them alone.

Belt sander racing.

Saw it a few times on TV.

Whenever I try to make a straight figgin' cut!!!!!


Seriously, I usually fark up the easiest of cuts with my circular saw.:mad:

Using a 4 1/2" angle grinder to frost the inside of a windshield ;)

Years ago I called a guy I worked with. He was out of breath. He explained that he had a piece of chain that had gotten wrapped up around the blade of his miter saw. He explained further that he had a rough cut blade for cutting wood on the saw, and that he was trying to cut the chain when the 'accident' happened. He thought nothing of it. 'Just one of those things'.

Moron.

I have cut firewood with a circular saw.

I know of a guy that tried to trim his bushes by holding his lawnmower over them.... he cut nearly every finger tip and had to get stitches in several of them.

I use a sawzall to trim my trees. Too lazy to get a chainsaw.

I had a pre-med college roommate who wanted to cut holes speakers in the back of his 1978 (new) Mustang II. I wasn't there when it happened but he took a chain saw into the backseat of the car and fired up the chain saw. According to another roommate, the chainsaw in about one second went across the back seat, up the back of the front seat and across the headliner. He's now a surgeon in the Indianapolis area. His first name is Olaf, btw.

Mixing paint on my South Bend lathe because I didn't have any stir sticks, It started as a joke but when you chuck it up offset in the 4 jaw, turn it on and 5 min later you have pudding paint!!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...1/paintcan.jpg

cgarr, that is awesome.

i have used my framing hammer as a black widow smasher. i built a hen coop out of lumber using nothing but my chainsaw. my cuts were ROUGH! better than running out that damn electric cord.

Just hope it doesnt let go... We had an electric paint shaker let go of a can of british racing green. Looked like we had grass on the shop floor for the longest time.

My little brother went way, way up in the woods one year to get the family Christmas tree. When he found the perfect specimen, he realized that he had forgotten the saw.

Luckily for him, we all subscribe to the need-more-ammo theory of preparedness...

He used a 9mm pistol to shoot the base of the 7 foot three. When it was fully and I might add, quite brutally, severed - he tossed it in the truck and came home.

angela

I've used an oxy-acetylene torch to heat up bean dip.

A chop saw off it's hinged base as a circular saw.

A paint hopper chucked up in a Cincinnati lathe to clean out hardened primer.

Crashed an MSC lathe intentionally into a part to split a composite part off it's stuck-on mold.

.. and countless others. Many contraptions have been built with ratchet straps and complex systems of ropes and pulleys.

I made a firing pin for my CZ-52 using a 4 1/2" nail chucked in the drill press. Used a file to shave it down and sandpaper to finish it up.

It's still in use and much harder than the original soft steel pins.

I can't wait until Johnco checks in.

I absolutely love that sort of thing:D BUT thank goodness for gun laws here in the UK,
not for fear of getting 'a cap, bust in my ass'
but the very real fear of some improvised use of firearms in the woods.

tonight on 'live leak'
 

Us lot are amateurs compared with this


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b5_1232883824

No kidding. I'd like to find that thread where Johnco regaled us with stories of him and his brother. I think we were discussing stoopid stuff we've done that we should not have survived but did.

I guess the "unusal vibration" would be a down gripe.

I forgot about this one: You can always stick your finger in the V-belt of the lathe just to see how fast its turning! Should have cut it right off!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...r91/finger.jpg

I confess,
In an attempt at mimicing my ability to loosen the drill chuck on an 18V drill,
My brave but foolhardy attempt with the 240V version ended badly.


and yes it was my 'writing' hand

lol, i would like to hear an audio recording, of the pilot calling the base to report the problem

CO? well, the thing is, there was this walking tree, and , like, it walked right into the LZ!! Go figure !

I've been reading! name a tool and I probably have a story. or just a body part and I could name the tool, although I never really needed a tool to get blood flowing. sometimes I have no idea how or why I'm dripping blood. don't always even notice until someone tells me. soft, thin skin and high pain threshold

I heard a story from a fairly reputable source about a guy who took his chain saw, climbed up a tree and sat on the branch he wanted to cut off.

Yes, you just guessed what he did.

He actually cut off the branch between himself and the tree. No, it wasn't a cartoon character, it was real life.

Plus, he had pressed the lock button on the chain saw's on/off switch, so when he fell, the power stayed on. The saw hit him in the back and cut his spinal cord.

He sued the chain saw company. I heard this story from someone who worked for the insurance company that covered the chain saw company, which is why I believe it to be fairly reputable. He sued on the grounds of "failure to warn" and the locking on/off switch being dangerous.

He won.

That doesnt count. I've done that too. It's safer...:rolleyes:






:D

I hear you on that. I'll be working on something and won't know I've hurt something until I start seeing red spots on the floor and bench. Then I have to check myself over to find where it is coming from. I don't feel a lot of them. Most of the time it's busted knuckles or razor blade cuts from cutting composite fabrics.

Inadvertantly cutting yourself sounds nasty,

Must be strange to not notice actually.

Same deal here... I will often take a chunk out of a finger when wrenching and will not realize I am bleeding. On more than one occasion I have become alarmed by the fresh red paint splattered onto the black lacquer finish of my '38 Buick, only to realize that I'm the one doing the painting.

I found our old thread. It's pretty much exactly the same as this one only much longer with better stories.

What's the dumbest thing you've ever done or seen done with a power tool?

Recently, one of my neightbors needed to cut a 4x4. So, his buddy from work brings over a circular saw.

The 4x4 was imbeded in concrete in has deck. He ended up cutting his finger, length wise. My neightbor got him to the ER. And they asked him to come into the room. He fainted. They had to give my neighbor oxygen!

You're right. Once i braced a 2x4 upon my thigh as I cut it with a circular saw.
Didn't have the depth set right.

Whoops. Still have the scar.

Oops,
Sorry for duplicating threads


Best get a coffee and settle to read the original subject then

Thanks for link

SOme of you guys are freaking me.

Right then, I agree the original is superb,
It contains original use of both
Dremels and saws
& I even noticed a 911 fan in there!

'Are there any, WOMEN here'?

I went to school with a guy who had his car in drive with the back wheels off the ground. He got his sleeve caught in the drive shaft and it wrapped him up.